# The Fossil Files is one year old: The best bits so far

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Podcast: [The Fossil Files](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611)
Published: 2026-06-16T04:12:00+00:00
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## Resource

The Fossil Files is one year old! Thank you everbody for your support! To mark the occasion, Susie and Rob take a look back at the last year and put together some of their favourite moments to highlight the best of The Fossil Files (so far) The episodes covered are: Episode 10. Fossil Fails: A Precambrian beehive and dinosaurs on the moon (September) Episode 3. Is de-extinction a scam? (July) Episode 6. Where did Pterosaurs come from? (August) Episode 12. Cretaceous zombie ants (October) Episode 9. The Spicomellis special (September) Episode 5. Were Neanderthals the first fossil collectors? (July) Episode 19. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte (December) Episode 17. AI & the future of palaeontology (December) Episode 2. Dinosaur poos from Poland (June) Episode 20. Back-breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs (January) Episode 28. How to get a Species of Human Named after you (March) Episode 32. Were giant super intelligent octopuses the top predators of the Cretaceous? (May)

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